Strayer, Ways of the World Chapter 7 Test

Long-distance trade generated change between 500 and 1500 c.e. because

it motivated the creation of states in various regions of the world.

it affected the day-to-day working lives of many people.

it became the vehicle for the spread of ideas and diseases.

Which of the following is TRUE of the Silk Roads?

The Silk Roads were largely a relay trade route, in which goods were passed down the line rather than carried by one merchant along the entire route.

Silk

was used as currency and a means of accumulating wealth in Central Asia.

Which of the following was NOT a factor that facilitated the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads?

Followers of the Zoroastrian faith embraced Buddhism in large numbers.

As it spread along the Silk Roads, Buddhism had its earliest impact through large-scale conversion of the local population

in the oasis towns of Central Asia.

In regard to the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads

the gods of many local peoples along the Silk Roads were incorporated into Buddhist practice.

The exchange of diseases along the Silk Roads

ultimately gave Western Europeans an advantage when they confronted peoples of the Western hemisphere after 1500 who had not been exposed to the diseases of the Silk Roads.

Which of the following was NOT an important Eurasian trade route before 1450?

The Atlantic Ocean Roads across the eastern Atlantic between Europe and equatorial West Africa

In contrast to the Silk Roads, the Sea Roads of the Indian Ocean

carried more products for a mass market rather than just luxury goods.

During the first centuries c.e.

Indian Ocean trade picked up as mariners learned how to ride the monsoon winds.

Christianity traveled along the Indian Ocean trade routes to Kerala in southern India.

Chinese merchants started to trade directly in India.

China contributed to the growth of trade in the Indian Ocean between 500 and 1500 c.e. in all EXCEPT which of the following ways?

The Chinese state under the Tang and Song dynasties prohibited Chinese merchants from traveling along the Silk Road, effectively forcing them to trade along the Indian Ocean trade routes.

The sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century c.e. had an impact on Indian Ocean commerce because

Muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the south China coast.

Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia

was a matter of voluntary adoption and adaptation of Indian religious, philosophical, and political ideas by independent societies that found them useful.

Swahili civilization emerged

as a number of rival independent city states.

All of the states that emerged in West Africa after 500 c.e.

drew upon the wealth of the trans-Saharan trade.

Mesoamerica and the Andes

seem to have had little direct contact with each other.

In which "third wave" civilization did the state largely control trade, not allowing a professional merchant class to emerge?

Inca

At its height, the Maya civilization traded along which of the following networks?

A land-based trade with the great city state of Teotihuacan in central Mexico

Despite other difficulties, long-distance trade in the Americas was facilitated by

NOT wheeled vehicles, oceanic vessels, or the isthmus of Panama.

The emergence of the Silk Roads was facilitated by

the expansion of China into Central Asia during the Han dynasty in an effort to control the nomadic Xiongnu.